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  Ukraine Is Bringing the War With Russia to Crimea, Strike After Strike Celebrating his seizure of Crimea in 2014, President Vladimir V. Putin later called the peninsula an “unsinkable aircraft carrier,” hailing Russia’s return there as a symbol of revanchist ambition. Now the Ukrainian military is hammering Crimea with swarming drone attacks, seeking to transform it from a Russian-occupied fortress into a nightmare for the Kremlin to manage. HELD BY RUSSIA Kherson UKRAINE Main transport routes Sea of Azov Kerch Strait Bridge Railroads CRIMEA Simferopol Black Sea RUSSIA Sevastopol HELD BY RUSSIA Kherson UKRAINE Armiansk Bridge Chonhar Bridge CRIMEA Simferopol Black Sea RUSSIA Sevastopol HELD BY RUSSIA Military base Sea of Azov S-400 air defense system CRIMEA Simferopol Radar system RUSSIA Sevastopol HELD BY RUSSIA Kherson UKRAINE Electrical substation CRIMEA Simferopol Sevastopol electrical substation Tavriiska thermal power plant Kerch oil terminal Crimea’s geography makes it an ...
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  China Tech’s Deepening Valuation Slump Fails to Win Back Buyers July 3, 2026 at 10:01 AM GMT+10 Updated on July 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM GMT+10 Save Translate 4:59 Takeaways  by Bloomberg AI The selloff in China’s biggest internet firms has driven some valuations to record lows but investors say a recovery still looks a way off given the many headwinds they face. The 27% slide in  Tencent Holdings Ltd. ’s shares this year has pushed down its price-earnings ratio to an all-time low of 11 times, below that of Hong Kong-based utility  CLP Holdings Ltd.   Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ’s stock tumbled more than 20% in June alone, putting its valuations at the lowest in almost a year. Investors have been selling out of China’s largest technology stocks due to concern the companies will fail to gain sufficient returns from their spending on artificial intelligence, while the nation’s sluggish economic growth is weighing on businesses that rely on mass consumption. Analysts h...
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  Kyiv’s most-bombed neighborhood just won’t quit But business was still good in Lukianivka, the beleaguered hilltop community that is the most-bombed neighborhood in the most-bombed district in Kyiv. Regulars nursed flat whites, a war-scape of burned brick and shattered glass visible through the windows not covered in plywood. Commuters stopped for lattes on their way to the nearby Metro station, which doubles as an air raid shelter where some may have spent the night. “After the last strike, everything was cleaned up within a day and we reopened the following morning,” said Balyokha, 18, over the hiss of an espresso machine that has kept pumping through five attacks damaging the cafe since Russia’s invasion began in 2022. After four years of war, life in Lukianivka, the most frequently hit part of the Ukrainian capital, is a mix of adaptability and endurance, defiance and denial, resignation and resilience. How these neighbors carry on is a measure of what is at stake as Washingt...
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  Searching for Survivors After Venezuela’s Historic Earthquakes With nearly fifty thousand people still missing, an improvised rescue operation comprising civilians, local firefighters, and foreign brigades is racing to sift through the wreckage. June 30, 2026 Emergency responders walk through the rubble in La Guaira, Venezuela, on June 25th. Photograph by Adriana Loureiro Fernandez / NYT / Redux In Venezuela, the coastal state of La Guaira is rich with tradition, carrying a deep connection to its fraught history. Starting in the seventeenth century, Spanish colonists enslaved Africans and brought them to the coffee and cocoa plantations that were concentrated in the area. For generations, they were typically allowed only three days off a year, from June 23rd to June 25th, in a recess mandated by the Catholic Church. During that window, they observed El Día de San Juan Bautista, which became an opportunity to practice the traditions of the communities from which they had been forc...
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EXTERMINATE ALL CHINESE RATS!

 Financial Times UK4 Jul 2026JOE LEAHY — BEIJING Addi tional report ing by Leo Lewis in Tokyo and AAnantha Lak shmi in Jakarta A legal opin ion issued this week by the China Insti tute for Mar ine Affairs said that a bilat eral agree ment between Japan and the Phil ip pines in May to begin nego ti ationswas “under taken without con sulta tion with China” and “viol ates inter na tional law”. The Japan ese and the Phil ip pine mari time claims include over lap ping exclus iveeco nomic zones (EEZs) east of Taiwan. Beijing claims Taiwan as its ter rit ory and hasthreatened to take it by force. “Japan and the Phil ip pines should imme di ately cease their pur suit of bilat eraldelim it a tion and act ively engage in nego ti ations with China,” said the insti tute,which is admin istered by China’s Min istry of Nat ural Resources. The state ment fol lowed increased activ ity by China’s coast guard this month, as wellas radio warn ings this week to Japan ese research ves sels to cease oper...
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  July 4 live: Trump heads for Mount Rushmore after heat shuts down his state fair Trump tells Usha Vance's book club he mostly reads articles about himself President  Donald Trump  has headed to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota to kick off celebrations for the July 4 weekend after severe heat shut down his state fair in Washington. Triple-digit temperatures forced the Trump-backed Freedom 250 to shut down the  Great American State Fair  on the National Mall, the latest blow to the president’s  chaotic preparations for the nation’s anniversary  celebrations. The incident marks the latest in a series of mishaps surrounding the administration’s plans for America’s 250th birthday, from the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool  turning green  from algae to the  sparse crowds,  collapsing stages  and  oozing infrastructure  at the state fair-inspired event. Trump will give remarks at Mount Rushmore Friday nigh...
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